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A wave of Israel’s allies are announcing their recognition of the state of Palestine, as part of a wider maneuver designed to ostracize Hamas and challenge attempts by the Israeli government to erase the chance of a Palestinian homeland.

Sir Keir Starmer will this weekend formally recognize Palestine as a state once Donald Trump concludes his state visit.

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly endorsed a declaration outlining “tangible, time-bound, and irreversible steps” toward a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, without the involvement of Hamas.

A group of Palestinians is set to file a legal petition urging the UK to take responsibility for what they describe as “serial international law violations,” including war crimes committed during the British occupation of Palestine from 1917 to 1948, with ongoing consequences that they assert are still felt today.

The president of Israel will travel to London next week for a controversially timed trip amid outcry from Labour MPs who have urged Keir Starmer not to meet with the visiting delegation.

Public funding to Scottish arms companies with links to the Israeli military is to be paused.

David Lammy will tell MPs on Monday that the UK still intends to recognise a Palestinian state in September, with Israel having shown no sign of meeting the government’s demands.

The government has approved plans to permit approximately 40 students from Gaza to travel to the UK in the upcoming weeks to begin funded university scholarships.

Police report that they have arrested over 50 individuals at a demonstration in London supporting the banned group Palestine Action.

The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

According to reports, Stourbridge MP Cat Eccles did not register a trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories in time.

Donald Trump has threatened Canada after the country announced it would follow the UK and France in recognising a Palestinian state.

The UK will recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel takes "substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza", Sir Keir Starmer has said.

Sir Keir Starmer has suggested that the UK will play a role in dropping aid into Gaza by air after more than a third of MPs signed a letter calling on the government to recognise a Palestinian state.

Israel is prepared to allow parachute aid deliveries to the blockaded Gaza Strip.

IDF soldiers are reportedly shooting Palestinians at aid points "almost like a game of target practice," according to a British surgeon who recently returned from Gaza.

A performer at the Royal Opera House presented a Palestinian flag on stage during a curtain call on Saturday evening.

Greta Thunberg arrived in France more than 24 hours after Israel seized the British-flagged boat ’Madleen’, which was headed for Gaza.

Israeli forces have stopped an aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg, detaining her and other activists trying to deliver supplies to Gaza.

About 800 figures from the legal community call on the government to impose sanctions on Israeli officials and consider suspending Israel from the UN

Palestinian rights group says remarks criticising a Lancet analysis on impact of the conflict are ‘sickening’

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee from the southern city of Rafah in one of the war’s largest mass displacements.